co-design in urban planning

Assoc Professor David Ludlow University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Co-design in Urban Planning

Urban Management – multiple challenges

finite resources and resource efficiency

climate change impacts and environmental vulnerability

demographic change and social cohesion

economic and financial crisis

Hence management complexity and need for innovative ideas on transformational governance of cities – an integrated governance that can manage this complexity

urban management challenges

urban complexity + integrated urban management

Nature-based solutions to societal challenges are inspired and supported by nature (living solutions). They are adaptable, multi-purpose and resource efficient and provide simultaneously environmental, social and economic benefits:

improve city resilience to CC and natural disasters contributing to both CC adaptation and mitigation;

restore urban biodiversity, ecosystems and their services;

improve human health, air and water quality, reduce noise;

improve quality of life, well-being and social cohesion…..

Nature based solutions

Delivery of public services including urban planning undergoing fundamental transformation

Stimulated internally by management reform, and externally by societal and technology innovation

Internal management reform response to budgetary pressures and complexity of urban planning - challenge too great for expert top-down governance alone

Combining bottom-up ideas with top-down sponsoring and steering promotes open urban governance and integrated management

Bottom-up engagement with urban stakeholders secures greater understanding of complex city processes - enhanced citizen empowerment - and democratic legitimacy

Drivers of Transformation

Both societal and ICT innovation provide major opportunity to realise the full potential of bottom-up engagement in integrated urban planning

Leveraging social networking, crowd sourcing and other collaborative ICT technologies to support of integrated and participatory urban planning

Promoting technological innovations - such as open data and take-up of social media data - to support knowledge exchange as well as enhanced connectivity, openness and transparency

EU Funded Innovation Research Projects (FP7/Horizon 2020) are engaging city and industry partners in defining practical applications and methodologies supporting ICT enabled urban planning

Catalyst of Innovation

SMARTICIPATE - Smart Services for Calculated Impact Assessment in Open Governance (Horizon 2020

Innovation Action, European Commission, 2016 – 2019) URBIS – urban vacant land applications for urban atlas (ICT-PSP , European Commission, 2014 – 2017)

DECUMANUS – Earth observation data supporting smart city applications for integrated urban

governance (FP7 space call, European Commission, 2013 – 2016)

urbanApi - urban planning tools and intelligence for integrated urban governance (FP7 DG INFSO, European Commission, 2011 – 2014)

HUMBOLDT Integrated Project – Development of a Framework for Data Harmonisation and Service Integration (FP6 DG Research, European Commission, 2006 – 2010)

EU Funded Research Projects

Urban planning is central to managing complexity (socio-economic and environmental) in territorial context - and securing win-win policy solutions

Requires:

Information, intelligence and communication

assessment methodologies, visualisation, simulation

integration of information and analysis (cross departmental/multi-scalar)

engagement of stakeholders and co-production of plans (bottom up)

All supported by ICT tools and methodologies

Intelligence - communication – assessment - decision

urban planning requirements

Intelligence - communication – assessment – decision

policy cycle – operationalising and mobilising intelligence - integrating governance

assessment of socio-economic and environmental impacts of alternative territorial development options

stakeholder engagement regarding alternative development options (co-design and innovation in solutions)

political decision making and plan implementation (democracy, legitimacy, trust)

spatial planning - operationalising

intelligence

policy cycle – operationalising intelligence

Open government paradigm driven by opening public data and services and facilitating collaboration for the design, production and delivery of public services

Making government processes and decisions open to foster citizen engagement improving the quality of decision-making and promoting greater trust in public institutions

Open processes, activities and decisions enhance transparency, accountability and trust in government. ICT facilitates bottom-up, participative and collaborative initiatives that tackle specific societal problems

Open government improving the efficiency, effectiveness and quality of public services by introducing new processes, products, services and methods of delivery enabled by ICT

Open Governance - principles

Open Governance – conceptual frames - ICT perspectives

transformed by co-production potentials

DECUMANUS EU FP7 Heat Loss Detection

Paris

Light Pollution Detection

Climate Change Impact

Vitoria-Gasteiz Transformed

19 14/09/2016

public motion exploration – Vienna

urban development simulation - Ruse

Titel - Ort, Datum - Vorname Name 20

Copernicus urban atlas – 700 cities

Is it essential to view urban governance in relation to the transformation tendencies arising in response to urban complexity and the evolving dynamic of social and technological innovation?

How does ICT enabled urban governance meet the needs of a transformed governance, supporting requirements for both a more integrated as well as more participatory open governance?

How do we incentivise the community to realise the full potentials of bottom-up engagement in the co-production of plans?

Questions for discussion

co-design in urban planning

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